Undergarment



E. BERDACH Sept. 18, 1945.

UNDERGARMEN T Filed Sept. 29, 1943 INVENTOR Er/r ea) fierdac/z BY W ATTORNEYS Patented Sept. 18,1945

UNITED STATES PATENT FFlE Ernest Berdach, New York, N. Y.

Application September 29, 1943, Serial No. 504,225

3 Claims. ((12-43) v The invention relates to articlesof apparel con- 9 control, more in accordance with the ideal anastituting a lady's undergarment such as a girdle, foundation garment, or combination garment of which one portion is constituted of a girdle, and the other of a brassiere. The invention more particularly consists in providing an undergarment of any usual type having a portion adapted to encircle the torso in the abdominal region thereof, in which such body-encircling or girdling portion has applied thereto in the portion of the garment adapted to overlie the abdomen and the portion adapted to overlie the buttocks when the tomical contour of these regions of the body, is thus obtained without interference with the necessary flexibility of the garment, both for comiort during wear and forease and facility in donning or removing the same.

A particular embodiment of my invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein I illustrate-a construction of girdle made in accordance with my invention.

In such drawing,

Fig. 1 is a front view of a girdle constructed in I accordance with my invention;

Fig. 2 is a rear view of such girdle; and

Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, in which similar reference characters identify similar Parts in the several views, the construction of girdle in which my invention has been utilized preferably consists of front sections In and rear ing in the upper and lower edges of the garment.

An object of the present invention is to produce such a body-encircling undergament, whether a girdle, pantie-girdle, or combination garment, with a vertically stretchable diamondshaped insert, which wili permit stretching of the material of the garment vertically over the abdomen and over the rear of the wearer without any appreciable stretch across the abdomen or across the rear of the garment, so that a definite confinin effect of the abdomen and buttocks is secured by the overlying diamond-shaped inserts or panels. By the construction of my novel undergarment, in having the upper and lower apices of the diamond-shaped inserts lie in the upper and lower edges of the garment, there is produced an angular pull upon the side sections.of the garment which is complete across the top and bottom of the garment but permits no stretching of the garment proper in a transverse direction in those portions thereof which necessarily overlie the parts of the torso which are tov be confined.

The objects attained by the particular provision and disposition of the diamond-shaped inserts or panels are to secure, when the garment is worn, a flattening or smoothing of the figure at the portions of the body underlying the garment at those localities and to eifect an even distribution of the flesh in the confined regions of the body, so that a uniform and proper distribution and flattening of a comparatively large area of the hypogastric region and of the region directly below the small of the back is effected. An effective sections I I formed of single pieces of woven material, so that no seam line occurs at the'side edges of the garment. Each strip of material constituting one such front section l0 and the corresponding and underlying rear section I I has its ends out in the form of an obtuse angle with the apex of the angle at substantially the longitudinal center I! of each of said sections and terminating in the upper edge of each of the sections at It and I4, respectively, and in the lower edges at I 5 and I6, respectively.v

When the girdle is formed, there is provided an insert ll of substantially diamond-shape in the front of the garment and a correspondingly configured insert l8 in the back of the garment. Such diamond-shaped inserts l1 and I8 fit exactly into the V-shaped edges of the sections l0 and l I having their upper and lower apices lying in the upper and lower edges of the garment. The inserts l1 and I8 are stitched to the V-shaped edges of sections l0 and II by stitching l9.

'I'he girdle is supplied with the conventional hose supporters 20-20.

It will be recognized by those skilled in the art that by reason of my novel construction of girdle, as hereinabove described and illustrated in the drawing, no appreciable stretch across the abdomen or the buttocks, to destroy the confining eifect of the girdle, is possible with my garment. On the other hand, the donning and the removal of the garment from the body is facilitated by the angular pull which is capable of being applied to the garment in the direction of the lateral edges of the inserts, such angular pull being applied from the center of the garment both at 2 the top and at the bottom at which the aplces of the diamond-shaped inserts lie. While the garment is being worn, such angular pull is permitted to be exerted by the bodily movements of the wearer and gives the freedom of movement and yet confining action in addition to the complete pull necessarily provided across the top and bottom edges of the garment.

While I have described my novel garment as constituted with a central front and rear diamond-shaped panel, formed of a material which is stretchable in the vertical direction, it is within the ambit of my invention to make such central inserts of entirely non-stretchable material. The confining effect of the front and rear panels would in that case be more pronounced, but in certain instances, such greater degree of confinement may have its advantages.

I claim:

1. An undergarment of woven material including a tight-fitting body encircling structure comprising a front section adapted to overlie and confine the abdomen, a rear section, and two side sections each constituted of a seamless and in- 'tegral panel of woven material delineated at their meeting'edges with the front and rear sections of the garment by edges in the V-iorm of an obtuse angle the arms oi. which extend vertically of the garment, whereby said side sections are capable of stretching laterally tor producing a the confining effect of the garment throughout the hypogastric region of the wearer, the capacity for stretching of the side sections being greatest at the top and bottom of their edges defined by the obtuse angle and considerably less at the median point of said edges and side sections.

2. an undergarment as claimed in claim 1 in which the side sections are constituted of an elastic material.

3. An undergarment as claimed in claim 1 in which the V-shaped edges of the side sections terminate in the upper and lower horizontal edges of the garment and the vertex oi! the obtuse angle formed by such edges is substantially at the midpoint of the side sections of the garment.

ERNEST BERDACH. 

